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JULY 26, 2023

The Starfire Mine, Kentucky, was once one of the largest coal mines in the United States. ” Rivian showroom to open in luxury Chicago neighborhood Once complete, the Starfire coal mine will be the BrightNight Starfire Renewable Energy Center. Rivian plans to convert the Starfire Mine in Kentucky to a solar energy center.

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Kentucky Coal Solar Energy 81

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

With the goal of making hydrogen just as common a fuel source as petroleum and natural gas, Kawasaki joined together in 2016 with Iwatani Corporation (Iwatani), Shell Japan Limited, and Electric Power Development Co., IMO) standards, in early December.

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Hydrogen Japan Australia Gas-Electric 532

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Russian State Corporation Rostec, one of the largest Russian industrial conglomerates, and Chinese State Corporation Shenhua, the world’s leading producer and distributor of coal, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. High calorific value coal concentrate will be exported to Asia-Pacific countries, mainly to China.

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Coal Power Powered Asia 210

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

India directs Coal India to invest in EVs & charging pods. In its many initiatives, the latest initiative the government’s Coal Ministry has asked state-run Coal India to diversify its interests to areas such as electric vehicles and charging stations. Read the complete article about India directs Coal India. .

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India Coal Charging South Africa 77

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

Underground coal gasification uses paired wells in a coal seam: one an oxidant injection well, the other the syngas producer well. CIRI), an Alaska Native corporation, is proposing an underground coal gasification (UCG) project that would use the resulting syngas to fuel a new 100 MW combined cycle power plant.

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Alaska Coal Corporation Carbon 199

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Japan-based JGC Corporation recently was awarded a contract by Osaki CoolGen Corporation for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services of the core facilities for an Integrated Coal Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) demonstration plant. Overview of the proposed CoolGen system. Click to enlarge.

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Coal Japan Qatar Gas-Electric 246

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MAY 3, 2021

San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,997. DOE Funding: $1,499,987.

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West Virginia Wyoming Coal North Dakota 305

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APRIL 18, 2018

The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain ( HESC ) project will convert brown coal from the AGL Loy Yang mine into hydrogen at an adjacent site and then transport the gas by road in high pressure tube trailers to a liquefaction terminal at the Port of Hastings. J-Power will use its gasification technology for gasification of brown coal.

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Japan Coal Transportation Australia 170

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine projects to receive approximately $4 million in cost-shared federal funding to improve the technical, environmental, and economic performance of new and existing technologies that extract, separate, and recover rare earth elements (REEs) from domestic US coal and coal by-products.

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Coal West Virginia North Dakota Virginia 150

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APRIL 25, 2023

Each 200MWe of generation capacity is expected to save more than 26 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions over its 24-year lifetime compared with a coal-fired power plant. KHNP and Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) have jointly executed the first nuclear power project in Barakah, United Arab Emirates, in 2009.

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Molten Salt United Arab Emirates Power Powered 435

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Unit 5 of China’s Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant, the first project to adopt China’s indigenous Generation III nuclear power technology Hualong One (HPR 1000), has been put into commercial operation, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced. million tons of standard coal and emission of 8.16

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Commercial Coal Water Corporation 448

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AUGUST 14, 2020

NYK Line, Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU), and Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) signed a joint R&D agreement for the commercialization of an ammonia-fueled ammonia gas carrier (AFAGC) that would use ammonia as the main fuel, in addition to an ammonia floating storage and regasification barge (A-FSRB).

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Gas Commercial Fuel Mariner 459

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Startup US Fuel Corporation (USF), which plans to design, build, own and operate scalable facilities near coal mine sites to convert coal into synthetic fuels, will acquire coal-to-diesel intellectual property (IP) that USF co-developed with an executive team consisting of Paul Adams and Steve Luck. Andrew Halarewicz, Sr.

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Coal Diesel Fuel Kentucky 225

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nucor Corporation, a North American manufacturer of steel and steel products, has made an equity investment in Electra , a Colorado-based start-up developing a process to produce carbon-free iron that can be used to make steel. —Leon Topalian, Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nucor Corporation.

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Carbon Companies Colorado Coal 293

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MARCH 16, 2015

As a point of comparison, Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company, with operations in the US and Australia, produced 227.2 million tons of combined production last year, according to the companies’ respective annual reports. Murray with ~65 million, Foresight with 22.5 million tons, about 83% of that (189 million tons) in the US.).

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Coal West Virginia Energy Companies 150

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. That’s why the shift away from coal is so important for EVs. Jeremy Michalek.

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Coal Pollution Grid Gasoline-Electric 150

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

This includes industrial coal gasification applications in China as well as jointly pursuing the deployment of commercial scale IGCC plants with carbon capture. Shenhua has significant experience in the development of coal-to-chemicals facilities and in the operation of coal gasification systems over a range of technology configurations.

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Coal China Cleaner Carbon 231

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Siemens Energy has received an order from China to deliver eight 500 MW thermal coal gasifiers for a coal gasification plant in Yili City (Xinjiang province, earlier post ) that will convert locally mined subbituminous coal into synthetic natural gas (SNG) with the aim of reducing imports of natural gas for power and heat generation.

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Coal Gas China Supplies 186

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JANUARY 18, 2011

GE and Shenhua have agreed to form an industrial coal gasification joint venture to advance the deployment of “cleaner coal” technology solutions in China. The new company combines GE’s expertise in industrial gasification technologies with Shenhua’s expertise in coal gasification and coal-fired power generation.

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Coal China Cleaner Washington 186

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In Japan, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and JFE Steel Corporation have built a medium-scale ferro coke production facility with a daily production capacity of 300 tons and begun demonstration testing. Subsidies have been granted to JFE Steel Corporation, Kobe Steel, Ltd.

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Emissions Energy Coal Japan 186

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MARCH 22, 2010

Peabody Energy will purchase a $15 million equity interest in Calera Corporation, which has proprietary technology that converts carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into green building materials. Peabody Energy is the world’s largest private-sector coal company, with 2009 sales of 244 million tons and $6 billion in revenues. Earlier post.)

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Corporation Energy Coal Water 186

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

.: MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to produce ethanol and chemicals via LanzaTech’s fermentation process using syngas resulting from the gasification of coal.

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Coal China Energy New Zealand 210

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JUNE 9, 2010

Alaska Native corporation Cook Inlet Region Inc. Laurus Energy have formed Stone Horn Ridge LLC, a company created to commercialize syngas from underground coal gasification (UCG). The syngas composition depends on the coal geology as well as the process parameters such as operating pressure, outlet temperature and flow.

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Coal Alaska Energy Houston 199

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Mitsubishi Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company signed a Strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the possibilities of collaborating in the biomass-to-energy business. Co-firing bio-pellets with thermal coal has proved effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants.

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Mitsubishi Corporation Energy Coal 199

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AUGUST 8, 2013

Siemens Energy will provide compressor trains for three LNG (liquefied natural gas) plants in China for liquefying synthetic natural gas produced from coal. The customer is the Hangzhou Zhongtai Cryogenic Technology Corporation. This marks the fifth follow-up order for Siemens from this company.

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Coal Gas Gas-Electric China 207

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JUNE 6, 2012

By 2025, ExxonMobil predicts natural gas will overtake coal to become the second most widely used source of energy worldwide. Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation in a speech at the 25 th World Gas Conference in Malaysia.

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Coal Gas North America Energy 244

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APRIL 7, 2020

Australia-based Woodside has signed an agreement with Japanese companies JERA Inc, Marubeni Corporation and IHI Corporation to undertake a joint study examining the large-scale export of hydrogen as ammonia for use decarbonizing coal-fired power generation in Japan.

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Hydrogen Carbon Corporation Japan 321

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JUNE 13, 2010

As part of its long term strategy to secure substantial energy resources in New Zealand L&M Energy Limited (LME) has lodged an application for an underground coal gasification (UCG) prospecting permit over a 2.112 sq km area containing in excess of 2 billion tonnes of Waikato coal measures. Prospecting permit application area.

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New Zealand Coal Energy Gas 186

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JANUARY 4, 2011

Syngas Limited has raised A$530,000 (US$532,000) via a share placement to contribute toward the continued development of the proposed coal-and-biomass-to-liquids Clinton Project in South Australia. Coal is the primary feedstock, supplemented with non-food biomass to reduce carbon emissions. First production is targeted for mid-2015.

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Coal Australia Diesel 2015 186

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

GTI and partners, The Ohio State University, Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC), and Trimeric Corporation (Trimeric), have been selected for award on a project to advance Ohio State’s transformational membrane technology to provide step-out reductions in CO 2 capture cost and energy penalties.

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Carbon Ohio Coal Wyoming 210

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JULY 19, 2012

Celanese Corporation has entered into a Joint Statement of Cooperation to advance the development of fuel ethanol projects with Pertamina, the state-owned energy company of Indonesia. Celanese TCX production process. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). The customers are the same, and the supply chain is the same.

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Indonesia Coal Fuel Gasoline 231

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is partnering with a power company to apply its pulsed electron beam technology to reduce NO x emissions from coal-fired power plants. Today, industry uses Selective Catalytic Reduction to reduce NO x , but the scrubbers are expensive to build and to operate. —John Sethian.

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Fusion Coal Power Powered 244

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Pathways for producing liquid fuels from coal. Accelergy Corporation ( earlier post ) is partnering with the Yankuang Group, one of the largest coal companies in China, on a feasibility study for a joint, large-scale, low-carbon, hybrid—i.e., In indirect liquefaction, coal is first gasified to. Source: EMRE.

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Coal China Fuel Hybrid 186

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AUGUST 31, 2009

China Datang Corporation began construction of China’s first major coal to synthetic natural gas project. China Datang Corporation (CDT) is one of China’s largest power generation groups. Output from the project is targeted at Beijing. Prior to that, it is expected to supply 1.34 cubic meters in 2011.

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Coal China Gas 2002 186

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JANUARY 21, 2011

Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Wison (China) Holding Co., a Chinese synthesis gas supplier, for the production of certain feedstocks used in Celanese’s advanced ethanol production process. Earlier post.).

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Coal China Production Chinese 199

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

BG Group has approved implementation of the first phase of a US$15-billion project to convert coal seam gas (CSG) to LNG—the first major commercial project to do so. Total gross discovered coal seam gas reserves and resources presently amount to an estimated 17.3 Coal seam gas and LNG. Source: QCLNG EIS. Click to enlarge.

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Coal Gas Australia Water 210

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JUNE 1, 2022

HYBRIT aims to replace coking coal, traditionally needed for iron ore-based steelmaking, with fossil-free electricity and hydrogen. Last year, it announced a collaboration with Swedish steel maker SSAB to explore the development of fossil-free, high quality steel for use in the automotive industry through SSAB’s HYBRIT initiative.

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Volvo Cars Carbon Emissions 334